Vanilla cupcake with icing. Light, fluffy vanilla cupcakes with melt in the mouth butter icing. Add sprinkles and decorative flowers to make them just a little bit fancy! The cupcakes and buttercream icing were awesome.
I have done a lot of testing and am proud to say that I finally have my favorite version to share with you!
Either way, the cupcake that the icing will sit on will rock your socks off.
Cream room temperature butter with a hand mixer, the paddle attachment of a stand mixer.
You can cook Vanilla cupcake with icing using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
For the vanilla icing, I simply mixed some powdered sugar with a little melted butter and some water and it was perfect for these cupcakes because the candy didn't melt like it would if I used cream cheese frosting. These cupcakes don't use a lot of icing, less than a tablespoon on each. I made cupcakes yesterday, for a very important occasion: I wanted to. Note: With the exception of the increased quantity of vanilla extract, this is the same basic recipe as the Red Velvet Cake recipe that's both in my cookbook and here on the site.
Although it's hard, let's put London aside and concentrate on our treats. Vanilla cupcakes with a simple, classic buttercream will always be my number one choice. It is light and airy and not to sweet so that you can add icing. Our favorite; tender, moist, buttery cupcakes. The creamiest, melt-in-your-mouth buttercream with a surprise ingredient!